Spirits in the Air: Potent Potable Poetry

The reading “Spirits in the Air: Potent Potable Poetry” will be held Tuesday, April 26 from 6 pm to 7 pm at The Good Lion, 1212 State Street, Santa Barbara. The event, which has free admission (and a no-host bar), is open to the public. A group of invited poets will read their work, and the work of others, about libations of all sorts. The reading will be hosted by George Yatchisin, “Drinkable Landscape” columnist for Edible Santa Barbara, food writer for the Santa Barbara Independent, and author of poetry volumes Feast Days and The First Night We Thought the World Would End.

Featured readers include Gudrun Bortman, Mary Brown, Susan Chiavelli, Michelle Detorie, Rebecca Horrigan, Amy Michelson, Linda Saccoccio, Jace Turner, and Chryss Yost (Santa Barbara Poet Laureate V).

This reading is one of the events for 2022 Santa Barbara Poetry Month, in conjunction with April National Poetry Month.

 “From Bacchus to Berryman, from Li Po to Dorothy Parker, drink and lyric flights have danced a long, sometimes loving, sometimes leery waltz,” Yatchisin says. “This event will attest to the multi-faceted ways poets have found inspiration, solace, and yes, sometimes sickness in the bottle. Now in its eighth year, this event makes clear just how fun poetry can be, and we all look forward to getting